This Day in "History"

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this thread created by me ...bcz we dnt knw wht hppnd this day in history..& wht,why when how ????
 
October 4

1887....
The International Herald Tribune was published
for the first time.

1895.....
The first U.S. Open Golf tournament was held in
Newport, Rhode Island.

1957.....
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial
satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth,
ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.

1965.....
Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western
Hemisphere by a reigning pope. He came to New
York to address the UN General Assembly.

1970....
Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a
drug overdose at age 27.

1990....
The German parliament met for the first time
since the reunification of Germany .

2001......
Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida
had contracted anthrax . He died the next day.

2002....
John Walker Lindh , the "American Taliban ,"
received a 20-year sentence.
 
Today's brthdy

October 4
Rutherford B. Hayes
1822–1893, American President

Also Born on October 4

Jean Francois Millet
painter (1814)

Frederic Remington
painter/sculptor (1861)

Damon Runyon
short story writer (1884)

Buster Keaton
actor (1895)

Charlton Heston
actor (1924)

Anne Rice
author (1941)

Susan Sarandon
actress (1946)

Alicia Silverstone
actress, producer (1976)

Rachael Leigh Cook
actress (1979)
 
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